And the popular defender also stressed there is no talk of the final and a return trip to Wembley in the Racecourse dressing room, with all the focus centred solely on this Sunday’s return battle with the Harriers at Aggborough.

Ashton’s 85th minute penalty in Tuesday’s home first leg ensured Wrexham hold a lead going into the second instalment of a Blue Square Bet Premier play-off semi for the first time in three attempts.

David Artell put the Dragons in front on the stroke of half time before Michael Gash levelled from the penalty spot on 56 minutes, only for Ashton to have the last word.

While pleased to score his first goal since the 3-1 home win over Gainsborough Trinity in February’s FA Trophy semi-final first leg, Ashton said he will only remember it with affection if his team progresses to Wembley on Sunday.

“It’s just a goal and it means nothing yet,” he said.

“It’s half time in the tie, and I’ve scored just before half time. There’s another 90 or 120 minutes to go and only after then will it be known how important my goal has been.”

Ashton missed out on last month’s FA Trophy Final triumph at Wembley over Grimsby Town through injury and would naturally love to be part of a second trip to London with the Dragons on May 5.

However, he added: “Our only dream right now is to get a positive result on Sunday.

“If we do that, then we have a chance of another success at Wembley, but we cannot afford to think any further than Sunday. It’s all about taking things one game at a time.”

The 28-year-old former Tranmere Rovers, Shrewsbury Town, Macclesfield and Chester City player said there was a general feeling of satisfaction in the Wrexham camp after Tuesday’s result.

“If you’d have offered us any sort of lead before the game we’d have taken it,” he added.

“On the whole we took mainly positives from the game. We’ll talk about those positives and build on them in training and also look at the negatives and work at how we can improve on them.”

Tuesday’s first episode at the Racecourse was certainly an enthralling affair and the eventual tie winners are likely to be more than a match for the victors of the other semi between Grimsby and Newport County.

The Welsh side won the first leg at Blundell Park 1-0, making them favourites to complete the task at Rodney Parade on Sunday.

Asked about the Wrexham v Kidderminster first leg, Ashton said: “The game was a great advert for football. We felt we should have had a penalty just before we scored, and Johnny Hunt had gone close, so had we gone in 2-0 up at half time you never know what kind of effect that might have had on Kidderminster.

“To their credit, Kidderminster came out fired up for the second half. We could have added a second through Dean Keates, but then they got the penalty which we were a little disappointed with as there was no real need to make the tackle. They dominated for 15 or 20 minutes, but to be fair we rode the storm then got ourselves back in front.”

Ashton said the Dragons cannot wait for Sunday to come around.

“It’s going to be a great game,” he said.

“We know Kidderminster will be hellbent on turning things around, but we also know what’s at stake and we’ll be giving it everything to get through to the final.”